Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #3 May!

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Cheap Chirpin #3 for May!

Cheap Chirper #3 for May is: Work in Progress Books!

In scrap shops, you can pay anywhere from $12 to $20 for these Work in Progress books.

It is just a file of ten 12 x 12 display pockets, which you can use to keep matched paper together, store unfinished projects in one pocket, plan your layouts and leave photos and matched paper together with a little post-it plan until you get to it. (These are great for pre-planning scrap retreats).

 MINE, however, are altered. You can pick up these A3 display folder books cheaply from Newsagencies, when school is well and truly back and they are clearing out old stock. These are often on school book lists for Junior Primary class portfolios. Even though this is tagged $7.95 I got a few for $5 each on sale.

 Then all you do is place on 12 x 12 sheet in the front so you can see where to trim and use your trimmer 5 times slowly across the book and ....

 

You have a 12 x 12 display book for organising your layouts! 

I have one for boy matched paper, one for brand label paper which I enter challenges for each month (Bo Bunny, Kaisercraft, My Little Shoebox, Imaginisce) and one with photos matched to paper with little plans drawn for the layout in the pocket too.

So do yourself a huge OCD favour one day...

Lay out all your photos in matching sets.

Walk around the table with matching sets of paper and match them to the colours in your photos.

When you have them all sorted into piles...

 

Put them into your new $5 display book ready for INSTANT scrapping! That hour will be worth a day!

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Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today!